My heart breaks for this woman in this BBC report. I wish she would’ve made a different decision though. Her baby was diagnosed with anencephaly, which essentially is the absence of a brain or a skull. So she and the father of the baby have decided to abort.
Shockingly, she takes a radically materialist viewpoint saying that the baby is not an individual or even human because the baby isn’t developing a brain. That scares me. But the way she does it, as if this were simply common sense, is what shocked me the most.
It’s a weird thing to feel sympathy for this woman who is saying something I find so horrible. But I do. Her pain is real. It is her decision that I reject. The whole thing is just heartbreaking.
It reminds me of how radical the Church is, how countercultural, to teach that every life is sacred. We live in a dark time. Keep praying that the Church’s light shines brighter.
October 10, 2013 at 5:33 pm
"The baby has no chance of survival" Yup, she made sure of that. This is heart breaking, but God chooses our beginning and our end. Now she will be a mother who gave permission for her child to be shredded rather than given a dignified end and burial. This is why it is so hard for her and her family.
October 10, 2013 at 6:14 pm
I wonder how certain they are about the supposed anencephaly – in utero diagnosis can be wrong. It's not rare to make a mistake
October 10, 2013 at 7:56 pm
So having a disability or deformity that will eventually cause your death means you can be killed? This whole exercise was pro-abortion propaganda – part of the campaign to have the general prohibition on the killing of a child in utero abolished in Northern Ireland.
October 10, 2013 at 10:16 pm
Seems to me the only to combat this tragic story is with something like this:
http://www.sonlightgarden.com/my_weblog/2013/08/my-entry.html
This will blow you away. Tissue alert! You are going to need them. Beautiful love story.
October 11, 2013 at 12:02 am
Ann Roth- thanks for that link!
October 11, 2013 at 1:21 pm
The video ends before the abortion. Have you heard of any follow up? I wonder if they went through with it. I googled it but didn't find anything. With no follow up, is it possible this was a phony case?
Very, very sad. Tragic. So very wrong. I feel sorry for this couple for so many reasons. I hope they changed their mind or that one day they will repent. Prayers for them.
October 11, 2013 at 1:58 pm
I understand the child was cold-bloodedly killed. The whole thing was a big feature for the pro-abortion Media campaign to legalise such killing in Northern Ireland.